'evening all again,
Forget my last message about chewed memory. See what happens when you
leave the Linux scene for 5 months to beta test Winderz 2x10^-16
Not-So-Advanced Server? You get used to reading its reports. :D
Anyway, here's a few problems I've seen so far with 7.1B2, some of which
have probably been fixed already and I just have never seen an email about
it:
1) Obviously the KDE menubuilder isn't in there... which completely left
me clueless as to what I had installed until I actually wrote out a list
of the binary names (yes I'm dull). Heh. :D
2) The EsounD daemon and the KDE sound servers are both set to not be
executable by anyone but root. I understand how there may be a security
breach by allowing normal people to use the mic input to possibly
eavesdrop on the server (??? Read that somewhere... Linux.com I
think?). But to a normal user who has his/her sound card configured just
fine, can play sound in X as root, but not as a normal user, I'd get
freaked out.
3) Apache's default content directory, /home/httpd, is set to the wrong
user and usergroup. Instead of root/root it should be set to the user that
Apache runs under, which is nobody/nobody if I remember
correctly. Otherwise Apache will scream a 403 Forbidden. ;)
4) I don't know what the heck happened to WU-FTPd between 7.0 and 7.1, but
two odd things happen: 1) The FTP server, by itself, does something
strange. Whenever any user (normal or anonymous) logs in, the FTP server,
by all that I can tell, tries to access a directory listing of /mnt before
it dumps the user into their respective home directory. I can tell this
because I have automount installed and whenever I try to log into my FTP
server, I get greeted by a nice stream of console messages stating that
the kernel can't access my floppy and two CD drives. Afterwards, all is
fine and I go on with my business in my home directory. 2) Anonymous FTP
is broken. On top of the above problem, the anonymous user is dumped into
some empty directory of God-knows-where, not /home/ftp. This is in spite
of the fact that the "ftp" user is correctly set to a home directory of
/home/ftp. Don't ask me anything more about that, as I'm still tracking
the logs... which are another story.
5) Speaking of logs, logrotate.conf has multiple entries for various
system logs (messages, secure.log, etc) when you look at the include file
logrotate.d and the ones listed in the main conf file.
6) When starting syslog at boot-time, syslog complains about the
nonexistence of various news-server related log files, even though I don't
have a news server installed. Such files are news.critical news.err,
etc. Sorry I can't remember exact filenames at the moment.
7) Finally(!!!), Postfix seems completely broken with procmail. This has
happened since MDK-7 release. Apparently Postfix can't correctly run
procmail for local mail delivery. Hence such, all mail for any user on the
system ends up being dumped into deferred/ for all eternity. Now if you
remove Postfix and dump Sendmail in its place, it works like a charm.
Just a few tiny bites out of a candybar for everyone to chew on.
--Scott Balmos
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